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==== Use of battery powered trains ====
There have been several discussions about using battery technology to expand the Merseyrail network, either by using already existing track, re-using old track, or laying new track, these plans include:<ref name="merseytravel.uk.net">{{Cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://moderngov.merseytravel.uk.net/documents/s21686/Enc.%201%20for%20Updated%20Long%20term%20Rail%20Strategy.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107021632/http://moderngov.merseytravel.uk.net/documents/s21686/Enc.%201%20for%20Updated%20Long%20term%20Rail%20Strategy.pdf |archive-date=7 November 2017 |access-date=17 May 2018 |df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{Cite web |title=New Trains |url=https://www.merseyrail.org/about-merseyrail/new-trains.aspx |website=www.merseyrail.org |access-date=2023-12-08 |archive-date=2021-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820045759/https://www.merseyrail.org/about-merseyrail/new-trains.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="LBN battery breakthrough">{{cite news |last=McDonough |first=Tony |date=15 July 2021 |title=Battery breakthrough will see Merseyrail network extended |url=https://lbndaily.co.uk/battery-breakthrough-will-see-merseyrail-network-extended |access-date=15 July 2021 |work=Liverpool Business News}}</ref>
* Ellesmere Port to Helsby: the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Long Term Rail Strategy document of October 2017 stated on page 37 that a trial of new Merseyrail battery trains will be undertaken in view to incorporate the {{convert|5.2|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch of track from Ellesmere Port to [[Helsby railway station|Helsby interchange station]] onto the Merseyrail network. A successful outcome may make Helsby one of the terminals of the Wirral Line replacing Ellesmere Port, with [[Stanlow and Thornton railway station|Stanlow and Thornton]] and [[Ince & Elton railway station|Ince and Elton]] stations brought into the network.<ref name="merseytravel.uk.net" />
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